Written Question

Sepsis: Hospitals

Wednesday 21st February 2024

Asked by: John Whittingdale (Conservative - Maldon)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many cases of hospital-acquired sepsis there were in each of the last 10 years.

Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)

The Department and NHS England do not centrally hold information on hospital acquired sepsis, although incidents of this may be held by local providers. The Office for National Statistics publishes the number of death registrations where sepsis is mentioned anywhere on the death certificate, in England and Wales. The following table shows the number of deaths registered where sepsis was mentioned anywhere on the death certificate in England and Wales, in each of the last ten years until 2022:

Year	Number of Deaths
2013	22,967
2014	22,826
2015	24,784
2016	24,973
2017	23,709
2018	23,185
2019	21,458
2020	19,324
2021	21,947
2022	25,542

The figures for 2023 have not yet been published.

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Written Statements
Martha's Rule - Wed 21 Feb 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Victoria Atkins (Con - Louth and Horncastle) of 13-year-old Martha Mills, who, after being admitted to hospital following an accident, contracted sepsis - Speech Link

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Select Committee

Coroners Courts Support Service, and Coroners Courts Support Service

Oral Evidence Feb. 20 2024

Inquiry: The Coroner Service: follow-up
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Justice Committee (Department: Ministry of Justice)

Found: We have looked at self-inflicted deaths, opioids, falls, sepsis and cycling- related deaths, and the

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Select Committee

INQUEST, and Oxford University

Oral Evidence Feb. 20 2024

Inquiry: The Coroner Service: follow-up
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Justice Committee (Department: Ministry of Justice)

Found: We have looked at self-inflicted deaths, opioids, falls, sepsis and cycling- related deaths, and the

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Select Committee

Bliss, Little Heartbeats, and The Smallest Things

Oral Evidence Feb. 19 2024

Inquiry: Preterm Birth
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Preterm Birth Committee

Found: I said, “If she ends up with a really bad infection or sepsis, or bleeds to death, she should be your

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Non-Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
UK Health Security Agency

Feb. 19 2024

Source Page: Point prevalence survey on HCAI, AMU and AMS in England
Document: English surveillance programme for antimicrobial utilisation and resistance report 2022 to 2023 (PDF)

Found: Results The literature review identified 53 sepsis studies.

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Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Department of Health and Social Care

Feb. 14 2024

Source Page: Funding for game-changing tech which could destroy cancers and predict disease
Document: Funding for game-changing tech which could destroy cancers and predict disease (webpage)

Found: allow chemotherapy patients to self-test at home – using a finger-prick blood test – for neutropenic sepsis

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Non-Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency

Feb. 14 2024

Source Page: Funding for game-changing tech which could destroy cancers and predict disease
Document: Funding for game-changing tech which could destroy cancers and predict disease (webpage)

Found: allow chemotherapy patients to self-test at home – using a finger-prick blood test – for neutropenic sepsis

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Select Committee

Dr Georgia Richards

TCS0058 - The Coroner Service: follow-up

Written Evidence Feb. 07 2024

Inquiry: The Coroner Service: follow-up
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Justice Committee (Department: Ministry of Justice)

Found: thematic analysis of coroners’ concerns in self- inflected deaths/suicides (5), medicines (6), falls (7), sepsis

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